Developing the Content of Forming the System of Intending History Teachers Professional Competence Using Multimedia Technologies.

Abstract: In the current research the components of the system of forming the professional competence of intending History teachers using multimedia technologies were investigated and elaborated. The purpose of the research is to present the specified system as an integral, multicomponent education, to determine its content and structure. Research methods include a practical study by the authorof the process of forming components of the proposed system in three stages: diagnostic, content-practical and analytical-summarizing with the use of research methods; analysis of the results of the systematic implementing multimedia tools in the educational process in combination with theoretical analysis of the scientific from different countries of the world. The study concludes that the developed system of forming the professional competence of intending History teachers using multimedia technologies includes five components - motivational-value, informationcognitive, operational-activity, creative-projective and evaluative-reflexive, the effectiveness of which is ensured by the system and procedural integrity due to the interconnectedness and interdependence of these components. Moreover, the effectiveness of functioning this system depends on a number of pedagogical conditions: introducing the author's multimedia educational tools to the educational process; updating traditional and introducing innovative methods of teaching social-humanitarian and methodologicalhistorical disciplines with the use of multimedia educational tools; the combination of reproductive and productive methods; providing intending History teachers with the necessary set of knowledge, skills and abilities to work with multimedia programmes and educational tools; introducing the elements of distance learning to training the intending teachers; using the appropriate material and software providing the educational process, creating the author.s multimedia educational tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]